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Indiana Jones swapping out an artifact for a fake one meme template with the text “existing code” on the real artifact, “new commit” on the fake one, and “linter” on the pedestal / trap
for me, it’s rather the tests in the pipelines rather than linting, which happens while I’m writing code
Why linter? I hope your CI has more than just linting turned on
The idea for the meme came to me regarding contributing to a project for the first time. It’s not like I will push trash code, but if I accidentally didn’t add exactly two newlines between something and it starts complaining…
If there’s a linter with such opinionated rules there should also be a pre-commit hook that auto-formats accordingly.
Or on save even. Slow pre commit hooks suckkkk
That’s up to each individual developer’s own setup. But hooks are a way to ensure uniformity since they apply to all commits.
Trial:
and error:
The linter runs automatically on every commit and blocks merges if it fails. Try again
I used to have my vim set up to trim excess whitespace on write.
I had no idea how many errant diff’s that would generate, I had to turn it off.
The right balance on this is to set it up to only trim whitespace on lines that you have edited, and only on-save.
Emacs has ws-butler for that behavior: https://github.com/lewang/ws-butler
That History section is exactly what happened to me
I’ll have to see if there’s a nvim equivalent, or if I can make my own
Yeah, you generally just want the same auto-stuff done as would be enforced in CI anyway.
… all the other stuff you could fix but wind up just ignoring because your team ignores it will just glare at you until you sneak it in somehow
i have prettier auto formatting on save (but also use vim auto format)
